filoxera
Portuguese, noun/fiˌlɔkˈsɛ.ɾɐ/
filoxera is spelled F-I-L-O-X-E-R-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese, the 176,436th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filoxera is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “phylloxera” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inseto hemíptero da família Phylloxeridae, da espécie Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, praga que ataca as videiras…”.
What does filoxera mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephylloxera
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. inseto hemíptero da família Phylloxeridae, da espécie Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, praga que ataca as videiras, destruindo suas raízes e folhas 2. doença da videira causada por esse inseto
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of filoxera
- filoxeras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filoxera?
- Brazil /fiˌlɔkˈsɛ.ɾɐ/
- Portugal /fiˌlɔkˈsɛ.ɾɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is filoxera in Portuguese?
filoxera appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).